HSPT Language Skills Review Exam
Questions with Verified Answers
Parallel sentences - ANSWER ✔✔Sentences that have the same grammatical
structure
Misplaced modifier - ANSWER ✔✔Modifier that is in the wrong place in the
sentence or needs punctuation to separate it
Squinting modifiers - ANSWER ✔✔Modifier they refers to a different following
word than what it's supposed to modify
Dangling modifier - ANSWER ✔✔Modifier in search of a subject
Fragments - ANSWER ✔✔Incomplete construction which may or may not have a
subject and a verb
Run on or fused sentences - ANSWER ✔✔When two sentences are combined
without the proper use of punctuation
Comma splice - ANSWER ✔✔Incorrect use of a comma to combine two separate
sentences
Irregular verbs - ANSWER ✔✔Verbs that have last and past participle tense
forms that don't end in ed or id
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Questions with Verified Answers
Parallel sentences - ANSWER ✔✔Sentences that have the same grammatical
structure
Misplaced modifier - ANSWER ✔✔Modifier that is in the wrong place in the
sentence or needs punctuation to separate it
Squinting modifiers - ANSWER ✔✔Modifier they refers to a different following
word than what it's supposed to modify
Dangling modifier - ANSWER ✔✔Modifier in search of a subject
Fragments - ANSWER ✔✔Incomplete construction which may or may not have a
subject and a verb
Run on or fused sentences - ANSWER ✔✔When two sentences are combined
without the proper use of punctuation
Comma splice - ANSWER ✔✔Incorrect use of a comma to combine two separate
sentences
Irregular verbs - ANSWER ✔✔Verbs that have last and past participle tense
forms that don't end in ed or id
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619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
